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The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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